Background
Guion, Connie M. was born on August 29, 1882 in Lincolnton, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of Benjamin Simmons and Catherine (Caldwell) Guion.
Guion, Connie M. was born on August 29, 1882 in Lincolnton, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of Benjamin Simmons and Catherine (Caldwell) Guion.
Student Kate Ship School, Lincolnton, Northfield (Massachusetts
She revolutionized the health care for the poor in New York City and training for new health care professionals at Cornell Medical Center and also found Cornell Pay Clinic which supported the poor in the city and brought in training. She was also the first woman to be named professor of clinical medicine. Till the day she died she had made many house calls and ran her own private clinic.
Guion was born in River Bend Plantation near Lincolnton, North Carolina, on August 29, 1882.
She earned a degree from Wellesley College in 1906. She graduated from Cornell Medical Center in 1917 at the top of her class.
She died on April 30, 1971. A building at the New York Hospital was named for her in 1963.
Member of the board director, 1956, Sweet Briar College. Served as; Member advising committee, National Health and Safety Council of Girl Scouts. Member New York Academy of Medicine, New York State Medical Association, Medical Women's Association, Shakespeares Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Club: Wellesley (New York City), Cosmopolitan.